CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON

CHICAGO (AP) — A nurse-turned-law clerk is the only candidate listed on next week's general election ballot for an open Chicago-area judgeship, even after she was fired from her courthouse job and criminally charged for donning a robe and presiding over traffic cases that should have been heard by a

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of California National Guard troops will not have to repay enlistment bonuses and benefits they received a decade after they signed up to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a deal between House and Senate negotiators.

At least two people were shot dead at the University of California, Los Angeles on Wednesday, police and campus officials said, drawing a phalanx of police cruisers to the scene and prompting officials to lock down the campus.